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Issue: Vol. 5403 No. 1: 18 Jan. 2024
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Published: 2024-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.1
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New Taxa and Occurrences of Mesophotic and Deep-sea Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) from Okinawa and adjacent regions

Department of Invertebrate Zoology; National Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian Institution; Washington; D.C. USA
Fisheries Resources Institute; Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency; 1-5939-22 Suido-cho; Chuo; Niigata; Niigata 951- 8121; Japan
Department of Zoology; National Museum of Nature and Science; 4-1-1 Amakubo; Tsukuba; Ibaraki 305-0005; Japan
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium; 424 Ishikawa; Motobu; Okinawa 905-0206; Japan
Echinodermata Japan Biogeography Distribution

Abstract

Thirteen new records of Goniasteridae showing mesophotic occurrence are presented, including a new species of Pseudoceramaster doto n. sp. from southern Japan and a new genus and species, Churaumiastra hoshi nov. gen. nov. sp. which occurs in southern Japan, the Philippines and Western Australia.

 

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